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I am really excited to be Tellago's Chief Mobility Officer . I have an official title that is chic and I get to play with a lot of toys everyday. No you cannot have my job! But there is something I think is misleading in that title and that is the term
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As browsers adopt more and more HTML5 goodness developers need to be cognoscente of new features to create better and better user experiences. As far back as I can remember the INPUT element has been a workhorse that allows the web to collect information
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This week there has been news that Silverlight 5 might just be the last version of the technology that never really seemed to get any real traction. This morning I woke to several stories about Adobe killing any further development of it's flash mobile
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Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world . In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can
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As I have immersed myself into modern web and mobile architectures I have come to one conclusion, multipage web sites are dead men walking. Constant request, retrieve, react is not a competitive application design going forward. The combination of high
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Earlier today Neilson released a study showing Android users spend twice as much of their phone usage time with native applications compared to the web . Ok, I will buy that. I am going to even do some further analysis and read into what Android users
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Nope, I am not the latest deep fried treat available at your local state fair, but speaking of fried Snickers…Ok back to business. A few weeks ago I got to spend a little time with Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff on their Deep Fried Bytes Podcast discussing
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Yesterday Microsoft released an update to Visual Studio 2010 to implement a much improved HTML5 & CSS3 support. You can download the Web Standards update from the Visual Studio Gallery and enjoy the new features immediately. I downloaded it last night
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Yesterday Microsoft finally revealed the Windows 8 User Interface . It’s Metro UI based with applications built using Web Technologies, that’s HTML5 & AJAX. Its being met with some criticism and skepticism and then there are folks like me who is personally
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Lately I have been spending a lot of time learning about browser touch support. First I read through the Touch API draft so I would be familiar with the touch events browsers are now supporting. My first instinct was to see if binding touch event handlers
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Today I want to show you how to build a Windows Phone 7 Application Bar for your mobile web sites. If you have not done any native Windows Phone 7 developer one of the standard features is the ability to build a toolbar containing up to 4 icons and a
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Yesterday I started a new series to build a mobile web version of the MVC Music Store reference application. In part 2 of my series of making a mobile version of the MVC Music store I am going to create the core mobile layout. This requires adding a new
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Earlier this month was one of my favorite weeks of the year, the Microsoft MVP Summit. If you are unaware of the MVP Summit it is basically a private conference Microsoft hosts in Bellevue/Redmond WA for MVP Award winners. For me it is a very intense
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Recently a new Patterns and Practices group has formed called Project Silk . The goal of Project Silk is to provide guidance to web developers on architecting great standards compliant web sites. Today I am spending the day with the team and about 30
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My primary talk this Autumn has been titled, 1 0 Things to Make You A Great Mobile Web Developer . In this talk I review 10 things I believe developers need to know to create great mobile web experiences. Honestly I could have easily titled it 1000 Things…
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